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Having problems with your Gateway MX6438 Notebook ?

Laptop screen is black

\015 Gateway mx6438 laptop screen is black after reloading bios v 68.04 . Power goes on computer boots to CD. can type in dos commands and CD is being accessed. Just cannot see anything on screen. Did phone gateway support to find and remove battery from Main board and other boards (memory, wifi, and HDD) to drain power. This did not solve screen issue.\015

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